by Robert Jordan
Fic Jordan, Robert
I took a hiatus from the Wheel of Time for a few months. I had to read the new Patrick Rothfuss book, The Wise Man's Fear, and wanted to read a few young adult books. I finished this book a few weeks ago and wanted to digest it before I wrote my review. I am currently taking another break but only because the library is having to reorder copies of The Lord of Chaos. This book I can say honestly has been my least favorite of the series so far, and that is because it is a gateway book.
It takes forever to get going, and I mean forever. The reader will be over 300 pages into this doorstop before they have any idea of where this book is going. And honestly where it is going is not that epic. Then Robert Jordan got me sucked into the most interesting part of the book by giving us a good conclusion to the battle were characters finally draw lines and get over what they have been complaining about since book one. I embrace the character arcs of the book and I am glad character change and grow as people through the extraordinary events they go through. This was great but we still have a nice chunk of the book left and this is where Jordan made me mad.
It's like he was 3/4 through writing this book and realized the story hadn't been that exciting, and for people who will have to wait a year or more for the next one, he needed to spice things up. The last fifth of the book is where this book should have been heading the whole time but it was written more as an after thought. It made me mad because the event that takes place isn't given any real build up to let the impact of it overwhelm us and feed us with emotion. I am trying to be very vague. The ending was exciting and I am ready to read the next one which I hear is one of the series best.
I was also very sad that Perrin was not in this book as he is my favorite character.
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